Example sentences of "lost in [art] mists [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | But the details of the incident have been lost in the mists of history and for most people all that remains is a fleeting memory of the dejected player arriving at Heathrow Airport to face a miserable future as one half of a very well worn footballing joke . |
2 | Deborah Dean had been nicknamed Dimity so long ago that the reason for the diminutive had been lost in the mists of time . |
3 | Edmund Bogg , writing at the beginning of this century when the feast lasted several days , learnt from the vicar that the origins of ‘ burning owd Bartle ’ were lost in the mists of time , but the figure represented St Bartholomew . |
4 | What actually transpired upon the outbreak of the Civil War is lost in the mists of time it would seem . |
5 | ‘ The origins of Morris dancing are lost in the mists of time . |
6 | Even memories are lost in the mists of time . ’ |